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"This woman in love with scholarship intends, to be sure, that woman should acquire learning"

 Christine de Pisan c 1363 - c 1430  French author and poet

Her Name is Christine

* Christine Akehurst

born 1945

..... FIRST professional woman toastmaker in Britain and FIRST woman member of the National Association of Toastmakers

* Christine Ball

….. FIRST woman appointed as a boss in the refuse collection department in Oldham when appointed commercial waste manager in May 2001

* Christine Bell

..... FIRST woman instructor at Armley Jail, an all-male prison in Leeds, Yorkshire

* Christine Bolt

..... FIRST woman appointed to a top post at Kent University when made deputy vice-chancellor in 1988

* Christine Cryne

..... FIRST woman to organise the Great British Beer Festival in 1992 when she had the task of marshalling 550 staff for the onslaught of 40,000 beer drinkers at Olympia in West London

* Christine Ellis

..... FIRST woman assistant governor of Dartmoor Prison and was previously assistant governor at Strangeways Prison in Manchester

* Christine Evans

..... Britain's FIRST female urologist

* Christine Ladd-Franklin

..... FIRST woman admitted to study at John Hopkins University and while there was entitled to receive the remuneration accorded to University "fellows". Whilst at the University she wrote her PhD in Mathematics but as the University refused to award her because of her gender it was forty four years before she was awarded her doctorate - 1926

* Christine Gilligan

..... FIRST teacher to achieve the RSA Certificate of Professional Development through the Teacher Placement Initiative

* Christine Granville

neé Krystyna Skarbek-Granville

born 1915 died 15th June 1952

..... a Polish countess born in Warsaw she was the FIRST female agent to be sent into France from Algiers during the Second World War when she was dropped in by parachute in July 1944. Her exploits in the British SOE won her the French Croix de Guerre and both the George Medal and the OBE

* Christine Hancock

..... FIRST woman and nurse to be appointed a district general manager at Waltham Forest, Essex in 1985. From there she moved to the Royal College of Nursing of which she eventually became general secretary

* Christine Knott

..... FIRST woman chief probation officer with the Probation Service in Greater Manchester in May 1998

* Christine Lee- Jones

..... FIRST woman to be appointed principal of Eccles Sixth Form College, England and also the First married woman to be headmistress at Manchester High School for Girls since the school was founded in 1874

* Christine Lomas

..... FIRST woman to fly with the Greater Manchester Police helicopter in 1995 when she joined its 16-strong team

* Christine Matthews

..... FIRST ever female football club secretary

* Christine Murrell

born 1874 died 1933

..... FIRST woman elected to the membership of the General Medical Council of Great Britain in 1924.  She gained her M D in 1905 from London University and during WW1 served in the Women's Emergency Corps. In 1925 she became President of the Medical Women's Federation

* Christine Pointer

..... FIRST woman to become chief executive of a Cheshire council when appointed to the post with Congleton council in 1993

* Christine Quintasket

 "Mourning Dove"

born 1888 died 1936

..... FIRST native American woman to publish a novel

* Christine Taylor

..... FIRST woman station master in Wales  when she was put in charge of the station at Machynlleth in August 1982 and where she was responsible for 48 people, seven signal boxes and crossings and 25 miles of track

* Christine Truman

..... won the Wightman Tennis Cup for Britain in 1958 for the FIRST time in 28 years

*  Christine Watts

..... FIRST girl apprentice at Vickers Armstrong's factory at Weybridge, Surrey in 1953. The trade unions weren't happy about women training as engineers so she was called a 'Technical Trainee' and worked her way through the Inspection Department instead of the workshop.  Two or three years later another girl, Dorothy McRitter joined the company and was designated an apprentice from the start. She appeared as the 'first girl apprentice at Vickers Armstrong' on the television show Six Five Special. After Christine's apprenticeship ended she became a Wind Tunnel Engineer and remained with the company for almost 40 years after it became British Aircraft Corporation and the British Aerospace. (P/L)

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